Lamentations 3:41
Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
In Context
40Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;
42We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness.
Cross References
Job 11:13But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;
Psalms 28:2Give ear to the voice of my prayer, when I am crying to you, when my hands are lifted up to your holy place.
Psalms 86:4Make glad the soul of your servant; for it is lifted up to you, O Lord.
Psalms 141:2Let my prayer be ordered before you like a sweet smell; and let the lifting up of my hands be like the evening offering.
Isaiah 57:15For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:38-42
The Duties of the Afflicted. ( b. c. 588.) 37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? 38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? 39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord . 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. That we may be entitled to the comforts administered to the afflicted in the foregoing verses , and may taste the… Read the whole commentary →